Hoerth v. City of Sturgis

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

By chapter 82 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1924 the cities and towns of the commonwealth were classified and Sturgis, in Union county, which theretofore had been a city of the fourth class, was made a city of the fifth class. The act was valid, and, upon its becoming effective, Sturgis ceased to be a fourth class and became a fifth class city. See city of Elizabethtown v. Lanz, 209 Ky. 815, 273 S. W. 500. No one in the city of Sturgis appears to have received actual notice of this change in its status as a municipality, and in August,…